Glossary

Terms used across the Pico course. Course-specific vocabulary lives here so lessons can link to a single definition instead of redefining terms.

Composer

A component that takes parsed Rules and produces a Pico output artifact.

Open Engineering

The overarching approach of treating engineering artifacts as declarative, composable, versioned, and machine-readable definitions.

Parser

A component that reads Rule definitions and turns them into an internal representation the Composer can operate on.

Pico

The small, declarative engineering artifact this course teaches you to build. A Pico is defined by Rules and produced by a Parser + Composer pipeline.

Rule

A single declarative statement that shapes the behavior or content of a Pico.